Leviticus 1:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be acceptable on your behalf as atonement for you.

Cross References

Exodus 28:38

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall take on himself any guilt incurred in the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate as their sacred donations; it shall always be on his forehead, in order that they may find favor before the Lord.

Exodus 29:10

“You shall bring the bull in front of the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull,

Exodus 29:15

“Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,

Exodus 29:19

“You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,

Exodus 29:33

They shall eat the food by which atonement is made, to ordain and consecrate them, but no one else shall eat of it, because it is holy.

Isaiah 56:7

these I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

Ezekiel 45:15

and one sheep from every flock of two hundred from the pastures of Israel. This is the offering for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and offerings of well-being, to make atonement for them, says the Lord God.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Leviticus 16:21

Then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites, and all their transgressions, all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat and sending it away into the wilderness by means of someone designated for the task.

Leviticus 16:24

He shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his vestments; then he shall come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, making atonement for himself and for the people.

Leviticus 22:21

“When anyone offers a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, in fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering, from the herd or from the flock, to be acceptable it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.

Leviticus 22:27

“When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as the Lord’s offering by fire.

Leviticus 3:13

and lay your hand on its head; it shall be slaughtered before the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 3:2

You shall lay your hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall dash the blood against all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 3:8

and lay your hand on the head of the offering. It shall be slaughtered before the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall dash its blood against all sides of the altar.

Leviticus 4:15

The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the Lord.

Leviticus 4:20

He shall do with the bull just as is done with the bull of purification offering; he shall do the same with this. The priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:24

He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat; it shall be slaughtered at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord; it is a purification offering.

Leviticus 4:26

All its fat he shall turn into smoke on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of well-being. Thus the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:29

You shall lay your hand on the head of the purification offering; the purification offering shall be slaughtered at the place of the burnt offering.

Leviticus 4:31

He shall remove all its fat, as the fat is removed from the sacrifice of well-being, and the priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar for a pleasing odor to the Lord. Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf, and you shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:33

You shall lay your hand on the head of the purification offering; it shall be slaughtered as a purification offering at the spot where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

Leviticus 4:35

You shall remove all its fat, as the fat of the sheep is removed from the sacrifice of well-being, and the priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar, with the offerings by fire to the Lord. Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for the sin that you have committed, and you shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 4:4

He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord and lay his hand on the head of the bull; the bull shall be slaughtered before the Lord.

Leviticus 5:6

and you shall bring to the Lord, as your penalty for the sin that you have committed, a female from the flock, a sheep or a goat, as a purification offering, and the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for your sin.

Leviticus 6:7

The priest shall make atonement on your behalf before the Lord, and you shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and incur guilt thereby.”

Leviticus 8:14

He led forward the bull of purification offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bull for the purification offering,

Leviticus 8:18

Then he brought forward the ram of burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

Leviticus 8:22

Then he brought forward the second ram, the ram of ordination. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,

Leviticus 9:7

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and sacrifice your purification offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and sacrifice the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the Lord has commanded.”

Numbers 15:25

The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the Israelites, and they shall be forgiven; it was unintentional, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their purification offering before the Lord, for their error.

Numbers 15:28

And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the one who commits an error, when it is unintentional, to make atonement for the person, who then shall be forgiven.

Numbers 25:13

It shall be for him and for his descendants after him a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.’ ”

Numbers 8:10

When you bring the Levites before the Lord, the Israelites shall lay their hands on the Levites,

Numbers 8:12

The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and he shall offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.

Romans 3:25

whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;

Romans 5:11

But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Philippians 4:18

I have been paid in full and have more than enough; I am fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

1 John 2:2

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.